CakePHP 2.1 Contact Form Data Won't Save - php

Question

I have a few different contact forms in my CakePHP 2.0 application. All of the contact forms are emailing as they should, but I need this particular one to also save the form results to the database. The post data is populating, and I can print_r() and pr() the form data. I can even email the post data. However, it is not actually saving the data to the model table. The database table is named contacts and has the following fields: id, publication, company, name, email, phone, message, contact_method, selections, received.
Here is my model:
class Contact extends AppModel {
public $name = 'Contact';
public $useTable = 'contacts';
public $validate = array(
'name' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty'
),
'email' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty'
)
);
Here is my controller:
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
class ContactsController extends AppController
{
public $name = 'Contacts';
public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Js');
public $components = array('Email', 'Session');
...
public function contact_att() {
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
//pr($this->data);
if ($this->Contact->save($this->request->data)) {
$this->redirect('/pages/publications-alabama-turf-times');
$this->Session->setFlash("Mesage Saved!");
}
else {
print_r($this->data);
Configure::write('debug', 2);
debug($this->Contact->validationErrors);
exit;
}
}
Here is the form in my view:
echo $this->Form->create('Contact', array(
'action' => 'contact_att',
'label' => '',
'class' => 'pubs'));
echo $this->Form->input('publication', array(
'type' => 'hidden',
'value' => 'A',
'label' => ''));
echo $this->Form->input('company', array(
'default' => 'company name (required)',
'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)',
'label' => array(
'text' => 'Company Name',
'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('name', array(
'default' => 'name (required)',
'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)',
'label' => array(
'text' => 'Your Name',
'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('phone', array(
'default' => 'phone number (required)',
'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)',
'label' => array(
'text' => 'Your Phone Number',
'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('email', array(
'default' => 'email (required)',
'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)',
'label' => array(
'text' => 'Your Email Address',
'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('message', array(
'label' => array(
'text' => 'Your Message',
'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('contact_method', array(
'type' => 'radio',
'style' => 'padding-right:20px;',
'legend' => 'Preferred contact method:',
'options' => array(
'phone' => 'phone',
'email' => 'email'
)
));
echo $this->Form->input('selections', array(
'type' => 'select',
'label' => array(
'text' => 'I am interested in the following:',
'style' => 'display:block; width:250px; margin-left:-12px;padding-bottom:15px;'),
'multiple' => 'checkbox',
'options' => array(
'ABC' => 'ABC',
'DEF' => 'DEF',
'GHI' => 'GHI'
)
));
echo $this->Form->end('Submit');
What am I missing?

Answer 1

After much banging my head on the desk, the answer turned out to be simple -- of course. I simply removed this line from my model. I thought that having it set to the correct table would be fine, but turns out, it needed to be removed:
public $useTable = 'contacts';

Answer 2

You can try with this:
$this->Contact->save($this->request->data, false);

Answer 3

Try with:
debug($this->model->invalidFields());
sometimes, model have errors on validations, and not shows with validationErrors()
also note this..
If $fieldList is not supplied, a malicious user can add additional fields to the form data (if you are not using SecurityComponent), and by this change fields that were not originally intended to be changed.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/saving-your-data.html
take some time and read this documentation is very important, I hope have helped you.

Answer 4

Friend, I see your problem, check..
This line is missing in your controller
public $uses = array('Contact');
put and try, then you told me...

Answer 5

Is post will only return true when the form sets the posted hidden flag. So try this instead.
if(!empty($this->request->data))

Answer 6

Pls add this line
$this->Contact->create();
before you tried to save using
if ($this->Contact->save($this->request->data)) {